A new issue of Triple Canopy is out. Shane Chaddha (Manchester): Elinor Ostrom Goes to Outer Space: An Association of Space Appropriators. Brian J. Phillips (CIDE): How Does the Kingpin Strategy Affect Violence? The Case of Mexico. From The Economist, Amartya Sen responds to Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya: “I have resisted responding to Mr Bhagwati’s persistent, and unilateral, attacks in the past, but this outrageous distortion needs correction”. John Cassidy on why the GOP needs to lose the presidency for a third time. Reed Johnson on the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Dieneke Hubbeling reviews All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders by AV Horwitz and JC Wakefield. Ezra Klein on how sexism clouds the Fed succession saga. The introduction to Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from Our Hairstyles to Our Shoes by Ruthann Robson. Ignore the haters: Law school is totally worth the cash. Christian Right fights porn in the dorm. An interview with Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, authors of If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic (and part 2). A revolution is taking place in how to visualise information: A review of Data Points: Visualisation That Means Something by Nathan Yau, Facts are Sacred by Simon Rogers, and The Infographic History of the World by James Ball and Valentina D’Efilippo.
